In so doing he perhaps had in mind the words
of the Catechism
of the Catholic Church, which reminds us that, «Created «in the
image of God»,
man also expresses the truth
of his relationship with God the Creator by the beauty
of his artistic works» before further explaining that, «To the extent that it is inspired by truth and love
of beings, art bears a
certain likeness to God's activity in what he has created.
After the usual rigamarole about shooting challenges and directorial perfectionism, someone asked Zhang Yimou what he thought the film was about, which he either answered honestly or deftly dodged by asserting that what he wanted people to take from the film, long after they've forgotten the plot, are the memories
of certain images: two women in red fighting among swirling yellow leaves, two sorrowful
men flying and dueling on a lake as still as a mirror, a sky
of black arrows, a desert moonscape haunted by lonely figures in white.
Memoirs
of an Invisible
Man is a rather melancholy comedy - fantasy and action picture that for some time has been a pet project
of its star, and among the personal traces
of Chevy Chase in the conception
of this project is, not unimportantly, a
certain ambivalence about his own
image.
Other new auction records were Lot 28, «Blind
Man's Bluff,» a sensual sculpture by Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911), which sold for $ 1,439,500; Lot 10, «The American Sweetheart,» a good work by Robert Indiana (b. 1928), which sold for $ 614,500; Lot 8, «Great American Nude # 44,» by Tom Wesselmann (b. 1931), which sold for $ 944,500; Lot 35, «In the Beginning Was The
Image,» a colorful and chaotic work by Asger Jorn (1914 - 1973), which sold for $ 2,099,500; Lot 46, «The Beach Series,» photographs
of skinny young people
of no particular distinction by Rineke Dijkstra (b. 1959), which sold for $ 405,000; Lot 40, «Figure 11.23,» a rather bloody looking work by Jenny Saville (b. 1970), which sold for $ 537,500; Lot 42, «Mailander Dom (Fassade),» a handsome church facade photograph by Thomas Struth (b. 1954), which sold for $ 317,500; Lot 45, «Wand (Mural),» by Thomas Demand (b. 1964), which sold for $ 141,500; Lot 48, «Thanksgiving,» a group
of 149 photographs by Nan Goldin (b. 1953), which sold for $ 284,500; Lot 64, «Adieu Batista,» by Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), which sold for $ 361,500; Lot 68, «A
Certain Lunar - Eclipse (Project for Humankind No. 2),» by Cai Guo - Qiang (b. 1957), which sold for $ 229,500; and Lot 24, «Untitled (Fragments),» by Toba Khedoori (b. 1964), which sold for $ 65,725.